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ArticleNature communications2024

High throughput intracellular delivery by viscoelastic mechanoporation.

Derin Sevenler, Mehmet Toner

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Article in Nature communications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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  19. Current Research in Drug-Free Cancer Therapies.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Derin SevenlerCenter for Engineering in Medicine and Surgery, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02114, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0327-5638
Mehmet TonerCenter for Engineering in Medicine and Surgery, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02114, USA. mehmet_toner@hms.harvard.edu.

Funding

High-flow microfluidics of leukapheresis blood products for functional analysis of breast circulating tumor cellsR01CA255602 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI HABER, DANIEL A., MAHESWARAN, SHYAMALA · 2021 to 2025
$3.2M
Intracellular delivery of DNA-editing proteins by viscoelastic cell stretchingK99AI167063 · NIAID · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI SEVENLER, DERIN · 2022 to 2023
$273k
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA255602NIAID NIH HHS K99 AI167063
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Brief pulses of electric field (electroporation) and/or tensile stress (mechanoporation) have been used to reversibly permeabilize the plasma membrane of mammalian cells and deliver materials to the cytosol. However, electroporation can be harmful to cells, while efficient mechanoporation strategies have not been scalable due to the use of narrow constrictions or needles which are susceptible to clogging. Here we report a high throughput approach to mechanoporation in which the plasma membrane is stretched and reversibly permeabilized by viscoelastic fluid forces within a microfluidic chip without surface contact. Biomolecules are delivered directly to the cytosol within seconds at a throughput exceeding 250 million cells per minute. Viscoelastic mechanoporation is compatible with a variety of biomolecules including proteins, RNA, and CRISPR-Cas9 ribonucleoprotein complexes, as well as a range of cell types including HEK293T cells and primary T cells. Altogether, viscoelastic mechanoporation appears feasible for contact-free permeabilization and delivery of biomolecules to mammalian cells ex vivo.

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ElectroporationProteinsAnimalsCell MembraneHEK293 CellsHumansMammalsProteins

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PMID38167490
PMCPMC10762167

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